Well here it is, I have been working on it for a while. There is definitely
OCC-ness from what my friends tell me, but occ-ness is what makes a story a
little fun, right?
Well, here is my disclaimer: I Don't own Gundam Wing...Yadda
Yadda....Please don't sue, I am broke; especially with car payments.
Well on with the story.
Expressed Actions and Written Words
Chapter 1: Es...ca....pe..
By Tojot
She placed aside a stack of folders she had just finished approving and stared across the desk at the teddy bear. It had been two years since she had received it from Heero. Right now her heart felt empty, she had become fed up with her job. Being Vice-Foreign Minister was taking its toll on her and her sleeping habits. Trying to keep the peace was harder than any one thought. She knew it was necessary now not to take the weapons away from the people but let the people choose to throw them away to achieve peace. She also knew that sometimes force was needed to stop a threat. Now she just wanted to get away, to run away and leave it all behind, from the merciless task of keeping the peace, to the disappearance of Heero. Relena had become silent again, never wanting to talk to anyone. Relena turned her chair to look out the large window that was behind her. The colony outside was quiet, calm and welcoming; but none of it matched what she felt in her heart. Lonely. It felt too..... Fake. The life that she had been born into was not what she wanted. She just wanted to not care about everything and have a simple life that didn't involve long boring conferences and meetings with men twice her age, the people who didn't know her true feelings and sometimes used her to get what they wanted. She felt used, and she didn't want to feel that way. She wanted to be with Heero. But she couldn't. He had disappeared soon after the Mariemaia Army incident and she hadn't seen him since. She had already made up her decision to disappear without a trace left behind, to get away and not come back to this life that she knew all too well. Just like Heero disappeared. She had learned to numb the feeling and hide it away from all who were around her with an indifferent face. She never felt like smiling. It was too much. There was a knock on the door that shattered her train of thought.
"Come in." She said still facing the window.
"We've come to visit the birthday girl." A familiar voice said as he came in.
"Happy birthday Ms. Relena." Another familiar voice added. Relena turned around to see her visitors. It was Duo and Quatre. Both had gift for her, but Duo had two. Quatre really couldn't think on what to get her so he ended up getting her a gift card to his favorite designer store.
"Thanks Quatre I will put it to good use." Relena said as she looked at a smiling but tired Quatre. He had been also trying his hardest to bring peace, but he was also co-operating the Winner family corporation with his many sisters.
"Here, this is from me and Hilde." Duo said handing her a gift that was messily wrapped in Christmas themed wrapping paper and duct tape. Relena had to chuckle at how pathetic it looked. With the duct tape she had to rip the paper. It was a metal clip bookmark and a picture of all the guys and Relena. It was taken on MOII, just 5 hours after Heero had blasted Libra's block A to smithereens. All the guys except Quatre and Heero were still in their space suits, Quatre was in a hospital gown, running about, it was after his wound (he received it from the duel with Dorothy) was taken care of and he had slept for a few hours. Relena and the others had forced Heero to take a shower, so Heero was running around in a bathrobe when the picture was taken.
"Thank you Duo and send Hilde my thanks." Relena said as she smiled at the picture.
"I will." The braided boy smiled, "Oh by the way, Heero left this for me to give it to you." Duo placed a package wrapped in brown paper on the desk in front of Relena.
"Thank you for bringing it." She said being cordial.
"Well we have to go, I have a lot of work to do and Duo needs to catch his shuttle flight back to L2. Farewell Ms. Relena." Quatre said as he went out the door.
"Thank you for coming, bye." Relena said.
"See ya later, O'Jousan." Duo said as he trailed after Quatre and shut the door behind him. She stared at the package that Heero had Duo bring. No way was she going to open it now. It was probably something that could make her change her mind about disappearing. Heero always did those sorts of things without realizing how much it helped. She pushed it aside and went back to work, burying herself deeper into the files and documents.
*~*~*~
3:15 AM read on the clock as She tiptoed over to the door, careful not to step on the floorboards that creaked. Quickly grabbing the black leather backpack that was placed carefully beside it, she looked back in her room, noticing Heero's gift, which she received two weeks before, still wrapped in its brown paper. She picked it up wanting to not leave it behind; she stuffed it into the pack. She opened the door. No noise came from the old hinges, since she had the maid oil them a few days before. She had this whole thing planned out except on where she would go after she did escape. Relena had found out the sleeping habits of all the house staff, knowing all would be asleep except one, Doc. You would never now when he was awake or asleep until you saw him. For some weird reason his sleeping habits were never a constant factor, always changing. She checked on her brother and his wife, making sure that they were asleep and dropping off a letter for them to find in the morning.
"Farewell Milliardo and Ms. Noin." She whispered before she carefully shut the door. Even though Noin was married to Milliardo, her maiden name stuck to her like a nickname. Relena thought it strange that it happened that way, but everyone knew Lucrezia Noin as Noin. Relena knew Milliardo was going to be mad when he found out that she disappeared. She made it to the stairwell, this was going to be the hard part, but she knew which steps creaked and which didn't thanks to the diagram she made.
'The Diagram!' She thought, 'I left it back in the room.' She quickly tiptoed back to her room to get the notebook that had all the diagrams of which routes to take out of the large house. She picked it up off the bed and checked inside just to make sure there was no tampering. She looked around the room again just to make sure she wasn't leaving anything behind that she thought was necessary to take. Her laptop, she could keep in touch with people without being successfully traced. She checked it to make sure it had no tracking device on it. It did, underneath and it was screwed on. She quickly pulled out the small screwdriver kit that she kept in the drawer and detached the device. She knew Milliardo liked to keep good tabs on her whereabouts. She put both the kit and the laptop inside her pack and made way back to the door. She heard a noise out in the hallway in which she just came from. It was Doc; he had just finished his nightly prowl and was going to bed. Relena knew that if Doc passed her room coming from the direction of the stairs and hearing a light slam of a door, he would be asleep in five minutes. The old man was Pagan's best friend and Milliardo's butler. Slam!!!!!!!
The clock read 3:30 AM when she finally slipped out of her room and tiptoed down the stairs. Using a small flashlight to look at the diagram and her footing, she made it down without a sound. But she knew she wasn't free just yet. Referring to her notebook every so often, she made it to the garage. She had a plethora of vehicles to choose from. She wore her leather pants and jacket. She pulled on her black leather boots and grabbed her black helmet from the wall, she made her way to the newest bike, her bike in which she bought and but hadn't licensed it yet, until the day before. She pulled the brand new license plate out of her pack and put it on the bike. She didn't want Milliardo tracking her through it, and she made sure her bike was pretty common bike among riders. She checked the bike for tracking devices. She found three and removed them. She thought back when Milliardo forced her to get her license to drive all vehicles parked in the garage, including the motorcycles. Never did he know that Relena planned on using her newly learned skills to get away from him and everything else. She placed on her helmet and wheeled the bike out of the garage. She wheeled the cycle in the different direction of her destination. Once she was out of earshot of the house, She turned on the motor and hopped on. Driving down the road, she took a detour that would give her a round about route into town without having to go past the house again. She knew no one would recognize her if they did see her. They would just mistake her for a man. She pulled up to the ATM machine, punched in her pin-number and set the amount. She removed $100,000 dollars from her account, some bills in Hundreds, some in fifties, some in twenties, tens, fives, and ones. She hid the money in several different pockets within the backpack that was slung on her back. She picked up some food from a convenience store, considering that it was the only store open this early in the morning. She checked her watch 4:30 AM. Relena was tired and needed to sleep. She found a small motel and checked in, the manager being half asleep when she rang the service bell. She knew she might not receive very much service here, but it didn't matter, she wanted her privacy. The manager told her since she was checking in at this time she could stay another night since the checkout time was at 11:00 AM. She paid for her room and grabbed the key and drove to the part of the building where her room was. She got to the room, thank goodness it was clean, locked her door tight, removed her pack and boots and then clothes (leaving the t-shirt that was underneath the jacket) and crashed on the bed. The first phase of Operation Fleeing Angel was completed successfully.
"Mission Complete." Relena said with a yawn. She found the words somewhat odd for her to say and started to laugh at the coincidence that it sounded a little like Heero.
*~*~*~
"Heero, you better get down here or I'll go up there to get you!!!" Milliardo yelled.
"Geez, you don't hafta bite his head off." Duo commented.
"Shut up Duo, Zechs what's the problem?" Heero asked.
"Relena has run off." Zechs tried to calm down.
"I'll be right there." Heero said as he ended the transmission. "Come on Duo." Heero continued as he picked up his jean jacket.
"Why do I have to go? She isn't my girlfriend." A stubborn Duo complained, folding his arms and refused to move.
"Because she is still our friend." Heero retorted as he grabbed the reluctant Duo's braid and pulled him out of the room.
"Ow, okay I get the point, oww, oww, leggo."
*~*~*~
She slept till 12:30. She was groggy but at least she had slept better. She needed to change her identity now; she pulled the hair dying kit out of her bag, as well as a pair of scissors and a contact case. She looked in the mirror. The long hair had to go. Taking the scissors and handful of hair.
*~*~*~
Heero stepped out of the car rental that Duo got a bargain for and quickly made his way up to the large house with Duo and Hilde trailing behind. After ringing the doorbell, he got an immediate answer of being punched in the jaw.
"This your fault that she left isn't it?" Zechs demanded as he cracked his knuckles and prepared for a second assault. Heero quickly regained composure and punched the angry Peacecraft prince in the gut. Zechs doubled over in pain and shock, realizing how soft he had become since the war.
"Do you think I would be here if it was." Heero calmly answered, "But I want Relena to come back just as much as you do." Heero said. His eyes were not to be seen through his long bangs. Just then Zechs managed to get air and ran into Heero, knocking the guy over. Heero punched him in the face knocking him off. They had already drawn a crowd of Duo, Hilde, Noin, and few members of the house staff, including Doc. Poor Doc; Zechs had punched him earlier for being awake while Relena was about to leave and not stopping her. Zechs had already seen the security cameras. He had also tried to locate her using the tracking devices, but they failed when he realized that she had taken them off.
"Are you boys done brawling? Or should I have to call in the Preventer's to break you up." Noin commented as Heero got a swift punch in the chest, knocking him over.
"Don't worry about it, just let them get rid of all their pent up frustrations, they would be much easier to deal with that way." Duo told Noin.
"True. Do you either of you want to come in for tea?" She asked both Duo and Hilde.
"Sure, sounds much nicer than seeing those two fight." Hilde said as she pointed to the fighters out in the yard, beating the living daylights out of each other.
"Naa, I'll just watch them beat the pulp out of each other." Duo said and they left him on the front steps to watch the action.
*~*~*~ Author's Note *~*~*~
PLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZEEEE Review. I would like to read your opinion 'kay. ^_^
Well on with the story.
Expressed Actions and Written Words
Chapter 1: Es...ca....pe..
By Tojot
She placed aside a stack of folders she had just finished approving and stared across the desk at the teddy bear. It had been two years since she had received it from Heero. Right now her heart felt empty, she had become fed up with her job. Being Vice-Foreign Minister was taking its toll on her and her sleeping habits. Trying to keep the peace was harder than any one thought. She knew it was necessary now not to take the weapons away from the people but let the people choose to throw them away to achieve peace. She also knew that sometimes force was needed to stop a threat. Now she just wanted to get away, to run away and leave it all behind, from the merciless task of keeping the peace, to the disappearance of Heero. Relena had become silent again, never wanting to talk to anyone. Relena turned her chair to look out the large window that was behind her. The colony outside was quiet, calm and welcoming; but none of it matched what she felt in her heart. Lonely. It felt too..... Fake. The life that she had been born into was not what she wanted. She just wanted to not care about everything and have a simple life that didn't involve long boring conferences and meetings with men twice her age, the people who didn't know her true feelings and sometimes used her to get what they wanted. She felt used, and she didn't want to feel that way. She wanted to be with Heero. But she couldn't. He had disappeared soon after the Mariemaia Army incident and she hadn't seen him since. She had already made up her decision to disappear without a trace left behind, to get away and not come back to this life that she knew all too well. Just like Heero disappeared. She had learned to numb the feeling and hide it away from all who were around her with an indifferent face. She never felt like smiling. It was too much. There was a knock on the door that shattered her train of thought.
"Come in." She said still facing the window.
"We've come to visit the birthday girl." A familiar voice said as he came in.
"Happy birthday Ms. Relena." Another familiar voice added. Relena turned around to see her visitors. It was Duo and Quatre. Both had gift for her, but Duo had two. Quatre really couldn't think on what to get her so he ended up getting her a gift card to his favorite designer store.
"Thanks Quatre I will put it to good use." Relena said as she looked at a smiling but tired Quatre. He had been also trying his hardest to bring peace, but he was also co-operating the Winner family corporation with his many sisters.
"Here, this is from me and Hilde." Duo said handing her a gift that was messily wrapped in Christmas themed wrapping paper and duct tape. Relena had to chuckle at how pathetic it looked. With the duct tape she had to rip the paper. It was a metal clip bookmark and a picture of all the guys and Relena. It was taken on MOII, just 5 hours after Heero had blasted Libra's block A to smithereens. All the guys except Quatre and Heero were still in their space suits, Quatre was in a hospital gown, running about, it was after his wound (he received it from the duel with Dorothy) was taken care of and he had slept for a few hours. Relena and the others had forced Heero to take a shower, so Heero was running around in a bathrobe when the picture was taken.
"Thank you Duo and send Hilde my thanks." Relena said as she smiled at the picture.
"I will." The braided boy smiled, "Oh by the way, Heero left this for me to give it to you." Duo placed a package wrapped in brown paper on the desk in front of Relena.
"Thank you for bringing it." She said being cordial.
"Well we have to go, I have a lot of work to do and Duo needs to catch his shuttle flight back to L2. Farewell Ms. Relena." Quatre said as he went out the door.
"Thank you for coming, bye." Relena said.
"See ya later, O'Jousan." Duo said as he trailed after Quatre and shut the door behind him. She stared at the package that Heero had Duo bring. No way was she going to open it now. It was probably something that could make her change her mind about disappearing. Heero always did those sorts of things without realizing how much it helped. She pushed it aside and went back to work, burying herself deeper into the files and documents.
*~*~*~
3:15 AM read on the clock as She tiptoed over to the door, careful not to step on the floorboards that creaked. Quickly grabbing the black leather backpack that was placed carefully beside it, she looked back in her room, noticing Heero's gift, which she received two weeks before, still wrapped in its brown paper. She picked it up wanting to not leave it behind; she stuffed it into the pack. She opened the door. No noise came from the old hinges, since she had the maid oil them a few days before. She had this whole thing planned out except on where she would go after she did escape. Relena had found out the sleeping habits of all the house staff, knowing all would be asleep except one, Doc. You would never now when he was awake or asleep until you saw him. For some weird reason his sleeping habits were never a constant factor, always changing. She checked on her brother and his wife, making sure that they were asleep and dropping off a letter for them to find in the morning.
"Farewell Milliardo and Ms. Noin." She whispered before she carefully shut the door. Even though Noin was married to Milliardo, her maiden name stuck to her like a nickname. Relena thought it strange that it happened that way, but everyone knew Lucrezia Noin as Noin. Relena knew Milliardo was going to be mad when he found out that she disappeared. She made it to the stairwell, this was going to be the hard part, but she knew which steps creaked and which didn't thanks to the diagram she made.
'The Diagram!' She thought, 'I left it back in the room.' She quickly tiptoed back to her room to get the notebook that had all the diagrams of which routes to take out of the large house. She picked it up off the bed and checked inside just to make sure there was no tampering. She looked around the room again just to make sure she wasn't leaving anything behind that she thought was necessary to take. Her laptop, she could keep in touch with people without being successfully traced. She checked it to make sure it had no tracking device on it. It did, underneath and it was screwed on. She quickly pulled out the small screwdriver kit that she kept in the drawer and detached the device. She knew Milliardo liked to keep good tabs on her whereabouts. She put both the kit and the laptop inside her pack and made way back to the door. She heard a noise out in the hallway in which she just came from. It was Doc; he had just finished his nightly prowl and was going to bed. Relena knew that if Doc passed her room coming from the direction of the stairs and hearing a light slam of a door, he would be asleep in five minutes. The old man was Pagan's best friend and Milliardo's butler. Slam!!!!!!!
The clock read 3:30 AM when she finally slipped out of her room and tiptoed down the stairs. Using a small flashlight to look at the diagram and her footing, she made it down without a sound. But she knew she wasn't free just yet. Referring to her notebook every so often, she made it to the garage. She had a plethora of vehicles to choose from. She wore her leather pants and jacket. She pulled on her black leather boots and grabbed her black helmet from the wall, she made her way to the newest bike, her bike in which she bought and but hadn't licensed it yet, until the day before. She pulled the brand new license plate out of her pack and put it on the bike. She didn't want Milliardo tracking her through it, and she made sure her bike was pretty common bike among riders. She checked the bike for tracking devices. She found three and removed them. She thought back when Milliardo forced her to get her license to drive all vehicles parked in the garage, including the motorcycles. Never did he know that Relena planned on using her newly learned skills to get away from him and everything else. She placed on her helmet and wheeled the bike out of the garage. She wheeled the cycle in the different direction of her destination. Once she was out of earshot of the house, She turned on the motor and hopped on. Driving down the road, she took a detour that would give her a round about route into town without having to go past the house again. She knew no one would recognize her if they did see her. They would just mistake her for a man. She pulled up to the ATM machine, punched in her pin-number and set the amount. She removed $100,000 dollars from her account, some bills in Hundreds, some in fifties, some in twenties, tens, fives, and ones. She hid the money in several different pockets within the backpack that was slung on her back. She picked up some food from a convenience store, considering that it was the only store open this early in the morning. She checked her watch 4:30 AM. Relena was tired and needed to sleep. She found a small motel and checked in, the manager being half asleep when she rang the service bell. She knew she might not receive very much service here, but it didn't matter, she wanted her privacy. The manager told her since she was checking in at this time she could stay another night since the checkout time was at 11:00 AM. She paid for her room and grabbed the key and drove to the part of the building where her room was. She got to the room, thank goodness it was clean, locked her door tight, removed her pack and boots and then clothes (leaving the t-shirt that was underneath the jacket) and crashed on the bed. The first phase of Operation Fleeing Angel was completed successfully.
"Mission Complete." Relena said with a yawn. She found the words somewhat odd for her to say and started to laugh at the coincidence that it sounded a little like Heero.
*~*~*~
"Heero, you better get down here or I'll go up there to get you!!!" Milliardo yelled.
"Geez, you don't hafta bite his head off." Duo commented.
"Shut up Duo, Zechs what's the problem?" Heero asked.
"Relena has run off." Zechs tried to calm down.
"I'll be right there." Heero said as he ended the transmission. "Come on Duo." Heero continued as he picked up his jean jacket.
"Why do I have to go? She isn't my girlfriend." A stubborn Duo complained, folding his arms and refused to move.
"Because she is still our friend." Heero retorted as he grabbed the reluctant Duo's braid and pulled him out of the room.
"Ow, okay I get the point, oww, oww, leggo."
*~*~*~
She slept till 12:30. She was groggy but at least she had slept better. She needed to change her identity now; she pulled the hair dying kit out of her bag, as well as a pair of scissors and a contact case. She looked in the mirror. The long hair had to go. Taking the scissors and handful of hair.
*~*~*~
Heero stepped out of the car rental that Duo got a bargain for and quickly made his way up to the large house with Duo and Hilde trailing behind. After ringing the doorbell, he got an immediate answer of being punched in the jaw.
"This your fault that she left isn't it?" Zechs demanded as he cracked his knuckles and prepared for a second assault. Heero quickly regained composure and punched the angry Peacecraft prince in the gut. Zechs doubled over in pain and shock, realizing how soft he had become since the war.
"Do you think I would be here if it was." Heero calmly answered, "But I want Relena to come back just as much as you do." Heero said. His eyes were not to be seen through his long bangs. Just then Zechs managed to get air and ran into Heero, knocking the guy over. Heero punched him in the face knocking him off. They had already drawn a crowd of Duo, Hilde, Noin, and few members of the house staff, including Doc. Poor Doc; Zechs had punched him earlier for being awake while Relena was about to leave and not stopping her. Zechs had already seen the security cameras. He had also tried to locate her using the tracking devices, but they failed when he realized that she had taken them off.
"Are you boys done brawling? Or should I have to call in the Preventer's to break you up." Noin commented as Heero got a swift punch in the chest, knocking him over.
"Don't worry about it, just let them get rid of all their pent up frustrations, they would be much easier to deal with that way." Duo told Noin.
"True. Do you either of you want to come in for tea?" She asked both Duo and Hilde.
"Sure, sounds much nicer than seeing those two fight." Hilde said as she pointed to the fighters out in the yard, beating the living daylights out of each other.
"Naa, I'll just watch them beat the pulp out of each other." Duo said and they left him on the front steps to watch the action.
*~*~*~ Author's Note *~*~*~
PLLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZEEEE Review. I would like to read your opinion 'kay. ^_^